Car part.



PATENTED JAN. l?, 1905.

E. DUDES.

UAR PART.

APPLIUATION FILED 313.26, 190.1.

ivo. 780,269.

UNITED STATES Patented January 1'7', 1905.

PATENT OEEICE.

ETHAN I. DODDS, OF AVALON, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T() IRESSED STEEL CARCOMPANY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORA TION F NEYV JERSEY.

CAR PART.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 780,269, dated January17, 1905.

Application filed February 26, 1904. Serial No. 195,343.

from which my improved car part is made.

This blank may be a section of an I-beam, as shown in Fig. 2, achannel-beam, as 1n Fig. 3,

or a Z-bar, as in Fig. 4L, these figures being' end views of the blank.Eig. 5 is a side view of a car-stake made in accordancewith myinvention. Fig. 6 is an elevation of the stake. Figs. 7, 8, and 9 areend views of the stake when made, respectively, from an Lbeam, achannel-beam, and a Zebar. Fig. 10 is an end view of the car-stake shownin Fig. 7 when braced by the application of an angle-bar. Fig. l1 is anend elevation of a modified construction of stake braced marginally withangle-bars.

In making car-stakes in accordance with my present invention Itake ablank, such as shown in Figs. l, 2, 3, and 4, which is afianged beam,either an lli-beam or channel-beam or a Z-bar, and divide itlongitudinally through the web with a bias cut I) b and also withtransverse angular cuts c c, thus cutting out pieces of metal d, whichmay be discarded as scrap. These cuts produce two pieces of metal 2 2,each of which has along one edge the original marginal iiange 3 of thebeam from which it is made, while its other edge is cut. This piece isof suitable form to constitute a carstake, and to better adapt it forthis purpose I place it in a suitable die or other apparatus, by whichits cut edge is iianged, as shown at 4 in Figs. 5, 7, 8, and 9. I preferto reinforce and strengthen the car-stake further by riveting to it areinforcing-angle 5 opposite to the iiange 4:, as shown in Eig. 10.

In Fig. 11 I show a modification in which the car-stake 2 has nointegral liange 4; but instead thereof reinforcing-flanges 5 5L areriveted along the cut margin of the stake on both sides.

Within the scope of the invention as defined in the claims the skilledmechanic will be able to modify the construction in various ways, sincel. A car part consisting of a single rolled beam having along' one edgean integral rolled i'lange and having the other edge an angled cut edgereinforced by a marginal flange; substantially as described.

2. A car part having along one edge an integral rolled flange and havingthe other edge an angled cut edge reinforced by an integral marginaliiange; substantially as described.

3. A car part having along one edge an integral rolled liange and havingthe other edge an angled cut edge reinforced by an integral marginaliiange and with an attached angle`||A piece; substantially as-described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand February 25, 1904.

ETHAN I. DODDS. Witnesses: Guo. B. BLEMING,

H. M. CORWIN.

